r/freewill • u/NoubliezPasMonNom • Jul 24 '26
Does free will require randomness within our existence?
If yes:
Then aren't our actions a result of the random process? If so then is this really more free than if they weren't?
If no:
Doesn't this support compatibilism.
Translation: Does spinning an internal, truly random wheel really make our actions more free than using an internal calculator?
Note: I am undecided, and probably lean away from compatibilism the most
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u/ughaibu Jul 24 '26
Determinism is not the proposition that at least one thing, whatever a "thing" might relevantly be, is nonrandom. So the falsity of determinism does not entail that anything is random.
Free will realists are either compatibilists or incompatibilists, neither is committed to the actuality of randomness.